A knockout occurs at the 2009 RoboGames as the crowd looks on in fear and awe.

The 10th annual RoboGames, the “Olympics of Robotics,” comes to the San Mateo County Expo Center April 19-21.

What can you expect at RoboGames? Here’s how the organizers put it:

Celebrate 10 great years of RoboGames history with hundreds of your
closest friends from all around the world as they bash, crash, smash and
elegantly configure their autonomous navigation programs to triumph in
over 50 different robotic sporting events. This year there are
contestants from 20 different countries, competing in 60 events!

I’ll be down in San Mateo to catch as much of the action as I can and share it with you all right here on the blog. There are quite a few events (everything from combat and fire-fighting to ribbon climbing and weight lifting), and I won’t be able to see everything, so please let me know what I should check out with a comment below.